Improvement in cooking-stoves



N. S. VEDDER.

Cooking Stove.

No. 94,675. Patented Sept. 7, 1869.

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Letters Patent .No. 94,675, datedScptember 7, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, NICHOLAS S. VEDDER, of Troy, in the county ofRensselaer, and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Water- Reservoir Cooking-Stoves or Ranges; and Idohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof,- reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and theletters of reference markedthereon, forming part of this specification,in Which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, through thecentre of my improved stove;

Figure 2 is a cross-vertical section, taken at the line x x, fig. 1;

Figure 3, a rear view of my improved stove, with the water-reservoirremoved; and

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the reservoir.

Similar letters of reference denote like parts in the different figures.

My invention consists, first, in providing a heatingchamber or chambers,against the front side of that portion of the water-reservoir whichextends above the top plate of the stove, in combination with aheatingchamber or chambers against and between the front part of thereservoir, which is below the top plate of the stove, and the back plateof the stove; and

My invention consists, secondly, in the heatingchamber or chambersagainst the front side of the upper part of the reservoir, and incommunication with the descending oven-heating fine or fines, incombination with a heating-chambenor chambers along the front side ofthe lower portion of reservoir, and in communication with the rearascending or exit fine of the stove; and

My invention consists, thirdly, in combination with the above, thedampers, for regulating the passage of hot-gases of combustion, throughthe upper and lower heating-chambers, along or against the front side ofthe reservoir.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improved stove, Iwill now proceed to describe fully its construction and operation, towit:

In the accompanying drawings A represents a cooking-stove, of the usualform of construction, and in addition thereto, the fines B B, risingover the top plate of the stove, and the hot air space or passage (J.

At the rear and outside of the stove, Dis the draughtfiue, and

E E are the ascending and descending oven-heating fines.

F is a damper, arranged to regulate the draught, and also to divert theheat passing over the top of the oven, and force it into the ascendingor descending fines E E.

G is a slide, covering a hole in the backplate of the stove, and leadinginto the hot-air fines or passages between the lower part of thereservoir and the back part of the stove.

H is the water-reservoir, with an extension, I, equal to nearly one-halfof the depth of thereservoir.

This extension is made-of such form as to cover or overlap the fines BB, and avoid the draught-fine D, and fitting close down on to the topplate of the stove.

The lower portion of the reservoir comes in contact with the ends a aand bottom b, of the air-pas,- sa-ge G, and fitting closely, makes anair-tight passage, O, between the lower portion of the reservoir and theback part of the stove, which is constructed with the draught-flue D, bythe damper G, and is connected with the ascending and descending fines EE, through the space between the edgeof the top plate of the stove andthe front of the reservoir.

The reservoir is also provided with lids, applied as deemed mostexpedient, and with a vent, K.

Z Z are legs or projections, to assist in the support of the reservoir,and keeping it away from the back plate of the stove.

One or both of the division plates between the fines are returned atright angles above the top of the oven, forming a flange for the damperF to close against.

The operation of my improved stove is as'follows:

\Vit-h the damper F open, and the slide G closed, the major part of theheat passing over the top of the oven, is drawn into the central or exitflue D, and passes up the pipe, a portion circulating through theascending and descending fines E E, up the fines B B, and from thenceinto the space C, producing a moderate heat againstthe whole extent ofthe front side of the water-reservoir, and when it is desired toincrease the heat-against the reservoir, the damper 11 is closed, andthe heat, which is thus slmt oil from the exit fine is forced into theascending and descending fines, rising up above the top plate of thestove, and heating the upper partof the reservoir, and then drawn downbetween the edge of the top plate of the stove and the front of thereservoir into the chamber G, from whence it passes into the exit fineD, the slide G, of course, being open, so that, it will be seen, thereservoir contents maybe keptat any degree of temperature.

Having thus described the construction and operation of my improvedstove,

What I claim as'ncw, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The heating-chamber or chambers against the front side of thereservoir, above the top plate of the stove, in combination witha"heatingchamber or chambers, between thefront side of the reservoir,below the top plate of the stove and the back plate of the stove,substantially as and for the purpose herein- 3. In eombinat-ion with theabove, the dampers, before set forth. v 7 arranged and operating as andfor the purpose here- 2. The heating-chamber or chambers against theinhefore set forth.

front side of the upper portion of the reservoir, in In testimonywhereof, I have hereunto setiny hand, communication with the descendingoven-heating flue this 7th of June, A. D. 1869. i or fines, incombination with the chamber or eham- NICHOLAS S. VEDDER.

hers along the front side of the lower portion of the reservoir, and incommunication with rear ascending or exit flue.

\Vitnesses:

H. CLAY BASCOM, ARTHUR GILMEN.

